180 Try what my credit can in Venice do:
That shall be rack’d, even to the uttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is; and I no question make,
185 To have it of my trust, or for my sake. [Exeunt.
[000] Scene II. Belmont. A room in Portia’s house.
TMOV I. 2 Enter Portia and Nerissa.
[001] Por. By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.
Ner. You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and 005 yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too [006] much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs; but competency lives longer.